LSU-bound Fournette says late grandmother would be proud

11:42 PM,
Jan. 18, 2014

Leonard Fournette is a consensus top-three national recruit and considered by some as the top overall prep prospect in the country. He committed to play football at Louisiana State on Jan. 2 after being recruited by other top programs, including the University of Alabama and Florida State.

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Perhaps only in this city are ribbon-cutting ceremonies for grocery stores the norm.

Such was the case Friday at the Circle Food Store at North Claiborne and St. Bernard avenues in the 7th Ward neighborhood.

"Oh yeah, it reopens today," said the nation's No. 1 college football recruit, tailback Leonard Fournette, of St. Augustine High School. The school is near the treasured, all-in-one store that was wrecked by Hurricane Katrina nearly nine years ago. ...